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Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić apologized to epidemiologist Predrag Kon and the rest of the crisis staff for the disqualifications coming from the Serbian Progressive Party.
Photo: EPA-EFE / ANDREJ CUKIC“I apologize for the attacks coming from the party that I lead. I apologize, because they did not deserve it in any way,” Vučić said on Twitter.
I apologize to Dr. Kon and the crisis staff for the attacks coming from the group I lead. I apologize, because you did not deserve it at all. Unfortunately, responsibility is the least valued in Serbia and it will take a long time to overcome politics and frivolity.
– Aleksandar Vucic (@avucic) December 6, 2020
He added that “responsibility is less appreciated” in Serbia, and that “it will take a long time to overcome politicking and frivolity.”
Fifteen minutes before this announcement on social networks, SNS deputy Vladimir Đukanović read several of Kona’s statements in the media.
Djukanovic, as a guest in the Hit tweet on TV Pink, stated that on January 26 Kon assessed that the risk of coronavirus was small, that a month later he said that the common flu was more dangerous than COVID-19, and on January 14 March that would. resign if schooling is interrupted.
“To say seven years later (also in March) ‘he did not die so quickly from SARS’ … Now he says that the measures were delayed, and at first he said that the virus was nothing,” Djukanovic said.
The deputy mentioned that he considers Kona a great expert and probably the best epidemiologist in Serbia, but evaluated that the only two solutions for a pandemic are “to close everything so that the virus slows down”, or the development of a vaccine or the acquisition of herd immunity.
After Vučić’s tweet was read on the show, Đukanović said that he did not attack Kona, but did express his opinion.
“Kon is the best epidemiologist we have. I criticized the work of the crisis staff in terms of some confusing statements, and we don’t have to agree with everything in life … I understand Mr. Vučić who criticized what I did. He SNS is a party governed by pluralism of opinion, “said Djukanovic.
Đkanović said before the end of the program that he saw that because of today’s comment on social networks, people who “spent their entire lives in the League of Communists, who are used to having another person serve them opinions,” preached to him, and that for the attitude he expressed tonight. “Ready to respond, pass every bill, even to discuss with Vučić.”
Retired epidemiologist Zoran Radovanović stated tonight that crisis personnel have been discredited and that someone is needed whom people can trust.
The president of the Union of Doctors and Pharmacists of Serbia, Rade Panic, affirms that the organization has been warning for six years that Serbia is not capable of responding to a major challenge, such as a pandemic, and that the Ministry of Health should have reacted to the first news of a potential health crisis. .
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